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When positioning mentoring as part of a knowledge management strategy, most organizations focus on how skill- and role-specific mentoring enables leaders and experts to pass on experiential knowledge to younger, less experienced colleagues. As I described in the first two articles of this three-part series, structured knowledge transfer is a key aspect of mentoring's value proposition and one of the biggest reasons why KM programs should incorporate mentoring into their suite of approaches. Mentoring can become an effective catalyst to break down silos, build boundary-spanning professional relationshipsand improve the quality of collaborative interaction enterprisewide.

Metadata governance from Embarcadero

Embarcadero has introduced ER/Studio XE3, which has been architected for data governance strategy. The company reports its new offering improves the customer’s ability to interpret huge amounts of data accurately and is said to give an organization a distinct competitive advantage over those that have yet to fully capture and leverage associated metadata.